.............she was thirty-eight years old tonight. She had been having sex of one kind or another since she was fifteen.....................so many ...overs................she remembered telling Tom, her special lover when she was nineteen, that she thought she might have fucked a hundred men and boys before she was with him......now at thirty-eight, she truly had no idea, but it occurred to her, as Julian kept pushing into her, that vaginal sex, these days, sort of felt the same most of the. . please... lock me up..... chain me... do anything you wish... but OOOHHH... for mercy’s sake... TAKE ME WITH YOU!”Quentin was smiling as he looked down at the prostrate, naked figure before him... What a body it was! And this was Julia Chant... actually begging him to lock her up somewhere and do whatever he liked with her! Quite... oh quite... remarkable. Music to his ears; balm to his soul. Oh how low were the mighty fallen!“Kneel up, Julia” he said. “I can’t go on overlooking these. ” She turned, arm outstretched, palm upwards to indicate the delicate creatures that were seated on the rocks around us, thin faced, beautiful women with sharp features and darting, blinking almost black eyes. Their light brown hair was short and flat to their heads. They also wore cloaks of a fabric that looked a lot like small brown grey feathers. Some of them sat with their heads tilted to the side as if wary of me.“The sparrows, they were the voices I could hear?”“Yes. They are my friends.. He and I had had a long talk about them and he thought he could arrange wire transfers from the offshore banks to his. The Swiss accounts were a different matter because they required you to appear in person with the right account number as well as the password. I was not going to use the money but I was going to do my best to make sure the leaders in hiding did not get their hands on it. Besides, Kat and I both had been seriously talking about moving back to the island until the babies were.